Disappointing Quotes

• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sad

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

  Reba McEntire

  People, Ambitious, Enthusiastic

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• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Pain, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

  Mel Brooks

  Disappointment, Essence, Luck

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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Keeping Promises

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strength, Inspiring, Dream

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

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• Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

  George Orwell

  Work, Progress, Illusion

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  Eudora Welty

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

  One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)

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• It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Baseball, Integrity, Games

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• It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

  Max Frisch

  True Life, Meaning Of Life, Sound

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Disappointment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Grateful, Focus

  "This Mom's Life: Katherine Heigl" by Cortney Pellettieri, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2012.

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• If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Independent, Numbers

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• SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Ocean, Musical

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.215, University of Georgia Press

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• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

  Cyril Connolly

  God, Atheism, Pessimistic

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• As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Disappointment, Mind, Should

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.248

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• But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Good Things, Found

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

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• It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

  Kevin Keegan

  Team, Eight, Two

  "Vernon's cool finish puts freeze on City" by Ian Whittell, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2005.

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• When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

  Will Arnett

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• It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Entertainment, Film

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Disappointment, Despair, Tools

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 03, 2014

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• There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Confused, Threatened

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